0000030730 00000 n my name is bob the fat guy and i love this poem its filled my fat guy needs. 0000053124 00000 n 0000336108 00000 n 0000008586 00000 n During this time period, African Americans were still being disrespected and treated harshly. Pigs were used in the Bible to describe how unsanitary it was to devour to our bodies. 0000154447 00000 n Start by marking “If We Must Die” as Want to Read: Error rating book. 0000082526 00000 n "If We Must Die enlarges the historical view of slave resistance, revealing a continuum of rebellions that spanned the Atlantic as well as the centuries.

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0000087992 00000 n %PDF-1.3 %���� trailer ‘If We Must Die’ by Claude McKay is a fourteen-line Shakespearean sonnet that is structured in the form which has come to be synonymous with the poet’s name.

March 30,2014 Mckay sends out a message to be brave because their blood are just as precious as anyone else's.

“If we must die, O let us nobly die”. This poem has not been translated into any other language yet. 0000143767 00000 n 0000360801 00000 n

If We Must Die (Howard University Press library of contemporary literature).

0000329480 00000 n McKay’s poem represents more of a stand your ground and fight back action. If We Must Die (Howard University Press library of contemporary literature)

IF WE MUST DIE.pdf - IF WE MUST DIE(1922 CLAUDE MCKAY If we must dielet it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot While round us bark. AML-2600-50456 If the overseer averted his eye, some struck out, heading north, following the well referenced “drinking gourd” to freedom. Although African Americans are far from a hog, sadly and very unjustly African Americans were once treated that way, we were once being hunted, we were once being cornered and slaughtered just the same.

In the poem “If We Must Die” Claude McKay uses vivid imagery and description he compares the life of an African American being hunted to the lowest of all animals a “hog” being hunted. 0000025571 00000 n 4 187 Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Jamaica in 1889, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. ' �4y�*��T��&�VD��aSL��M.���_;~���ԑ�c���ƛ��1I��(��-�y�J�䑺��qӟ�B

If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed.

Second quatrain If we must die, we will do it nobly. In Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die”, McKay uses imagery and description to convey how African Americans felt towards whites. 0000334798 00000 n

Rhonda Hardy (4/3/2016 9:05:00 AM). He was referring to the bloodshed and massacre of 1919. This fits securely into the rest of his bodies of work, which displays a strong, exuberant stance on equal rights.

This piece of work does not fit into the militant life but it does however somewhat fit into the life of a peasant.

4 0 obj <> endobj boiiiiiiiiiiiii: the answer to your question is a resounding no. If we must die—oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! 0000093519 00000 n What though before us lies the open grave? 0000102526 00000 n

If We Must Die Claude McKay If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious1 spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. Yes he died long time ago.

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0000340390 00000 n 0000132871 00000 n African-Americans being owned by someone. In vain; then even the monsters we defy.

0000361421 00000 n Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.

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0000049234 00000 n Slaughter is the image that instantly comes to my mind in his opening lines.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious1spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot.

Which brings the reference to animals such as hogs McKay used to describe how poorly African-Americans were treated. If we must die, O let us nobly die So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!

If We Must Die, by Claude McKay is a sonnet written during the Harlem Renaissance period; a period where there was a flowering of African-American literature and art, (1919- mid 1930s). 0000006834 00000 n In Claude McKay’s work, If We Must Die, there is a creative mixing of elements that one would encounter in peasantry and those encountered in a military setting. Claude McKay was considered one of the first African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. 0000009509 00000 n Alvon Hart The comparison relates to how one may be cornered by the enemy and tortured until killed. If the community gather up together, they can make a difference and they will be able to beat those who are the cowardly pack. If we must die—let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. March 30,2014

0000359497 00000 n McKay uses the comparison to let the world know how African Americans were treated back then and to let the world know that no matter what African Americans wanted to die a noble death as well. In so many cases African Americans have been treated less than human. The speaker seems to portray the enemy in many different ways. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. 0000004725 00000 n 0000358905 00000 n 0000005035 00000 n

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Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! During this time, the torture of a black person drew thousands of local onlookers and was replayed throughout the nation in lurid newspaper reports. 0000335503 00000 n Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Refresh and try again. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. 0000068684 00000 n

0000356944 00000 n 0000358739 00000 n Mckay wanted to send an encouraging message to give strength to the African American community. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained2to honor us though dead!

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Although they may die in this fight for freedom, at least they were fighting for something they truly believe in. He speaks of being hunted and penned as would an animal or even a soldier being pursued by the enemy in a battle situation, and beyond that, one can think of the helpless slave caught in a clandestine rush to freedom, flushed out by dogs, tied, and returned to the cage of no freedom. 0000030835 00000 n 0000004544 00000 n Why poetry is necessary and sought after during crises. 0000331063 00000 n

0000361113 00000 n ” Claude McKay’s final statement is fitting symbolism of the African American spirit in reference to their refusal to accept slavery.

If We Must Die If We Must Die by Eric Robert Taylor, If We Must Die Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. 0000361305 00000 n 0000331734 00000 n

Shipboard insurrections formed a surprisingly influential and successful part of that continuum, and their history can no longer be overlooked." First quatrain We won’t die like hogs hunted by dogs. 0000022865 00000 n 0000329083 00000 n 0000356805 00000 n We must meet the common foe! 0000031275 00000 n Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack.

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0000019968 00000 n McKay describes our blood as “precious” which makes us feel that we are of value therefore avoiding the loss of our lives to not go in vain. 0000087093 00000 n Transported into America among the very first slaves, it has survived for four centuries under the most difficult of circumstances. 0000013462 00000 n

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0000361189 00000 n Crystal Melton 0000360756 00000 n 0000328916 00000 n 0000355189 00000 n In Claude McKay’s poem “If We Must Die” he uses imagery and describes the poem to deliver feeling by comparing the problems to symbols like animals or objects that his readers can relate to. ”, is an inducement to men to come to the battle field and free their progeny all the while knowing their fate he says, “Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

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